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1 online resource (228 p.) |
Series |
The Nineteenth Century Ser |
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The Nineteenth Century Ser
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Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Texts and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Contexts -- I 'Progressive Revelation': The Bible in Victorian England -- II 'What Is the True Religion?' -- III Providential Meaning: An Evolving Story -- (a) 'The grand narrative' -- (b) Nineteenth-century providential thinking -- (c) Reading the Book of Nature -- IV The Providential Novel: Generic Conventions and Concerns -- (a) Plotting -- (b) Genre -- (c) Temporality -- (d) Realism |
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(E) 'Omniscience' -- V 'The Self in Moral Space' 127 -- Notes -- Chapter 2: In the Beginning: From Pickwick to Scrooge -- I The Moment of Creation and the Fall into Knowledge -- II Towards the 'Carol Philosophy' -- III A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas -- IV The Incarnation, Temporality, and the Doctrine of Anamnesis -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Dombey and Son : 'What the Waves Were Always Saying' -- I Biblical Intertextuality -- II Eschatology and the Coming of the Kingdom -- III God and Nature -- IV Towards Apocalypse -- V Beatitudes -- Notes |
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Chapter 4: Bleak House : Expecting a Judgement -- I 'Responsible Consciousness' -- II Original Sin: The Chancery Metaphor -- III The parousia Household in Victorian Domestic Space -- IV 'The Letter and the Answer' -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Little Dorrit and the Coming of the Kingdom -- I Mrs Clennam's Bible -- II Degrees of Freedom: 'the Prison of This Lower World' -- III The Gospel of Mammonism -- IV The Child of the Marshalsea -- V 'What Nature Is' -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Last Things: Redemption, Resurrection, and the Life Everlasting -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Description based upon print version of record |
Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781000289664 |
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1000289664 |
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